Senior Product Manager

Our Mission

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Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes. Job Summary

As a Senior Product Manager, you will manage key features across our identity security products, including Palo Alto Networks Cloud Identity Engine and User-ID, to ensure robust identification, authorization, authentication, and posture management across cloud and on-premise networks.

Your Career In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional engineering, field teams, and external customers to develop proactive upgrade strategies, present product solutions, and drive feature adoption.

• Work Location: 3000 Tannery Way, Santa Clara, CA 95054 (Telecommuting may be permitted. When not telecommuting, must report to worksite.)

Your Impact

• Manage key features across our identity security product, including experience with: Palo Alto Networks Cloud Identity Engine and User-ID, identifying a user on a network.

• Oversee Authorization: Management of users, groups, devices, and attributes across on-premise and cloud directories.

• Oversee Authentication: NTLM, RADIUS, Kerberos, LDAP auth, SAML, OIDC, FIDO2, Passkeys.

• Manage Identity security: user-based risk modeling with security Risk and posture management across Identity providers, endpoints, and SaaS applications.

• Handle Secrets vault, Just-in-time access, Zero Trust, Non-human Identities, and continuous authorization.

• Present in front of internal and external audiences.

• Partner closely with engineering to develop proactive upgrade strategies.

• Develop insights into customer deployments and provide recommendations to accelerate feature adoption.

• Utilize strong communication skills and ability to interface cross-functionally as well as with external customers, field teams, and partners.

Qualifications Minimum Education Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign degree equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.

Minimum Work Experience Required:

• 3 years of experience in the Senior Product Manager, or any other related occupation, job title/position.

Your Experience / Minimum Skills Required:

• Designing and deploying IAMs across the following deployment architectures: Cloud Service Providers, Private and public cloud data centers, service provider data center, Large enterprise networks, Financial networks, High-performance computing (HPC).

• Technology Management.

• Management Writing.

• Management Presentation.

• Sales and Business Development.

• Hands-on operational (real-world, device and appliance management).

• Identity Access Management (IAM) - Microsoft Entra-ID, Okta, Active Directory, openLDAP, Ping Identity, Google Identity.

• Identity standards (SAML, OIDC, SCIM, SSF), RFCs, frameworks, and architectures.

The Team We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time (3 days a week at our Santa Clara headquarters), with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Compensation Disclosure The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.

• Salary Range: $148,700 – $240,500 per year

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

PANW is not offering new employer-sponsored immigration support to external applicants for this job opportunity.